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What Causes Feeling Of Something Is Stuck In Throat?

Hi I have a constant feeling that something is stuck in my throat. When I eat I get very sever pains to the left of my chest, it feels like there is some sort of blockage and the pain is being caused by my food squeezing past the blockage. This is really starting to have a bad effect on my life. Please help!
Tue, 7 Apr 2020
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Hi,

Noted your short and specific history well and understood the concerns.
The commonest causes I can think about are as follows:
Problem may be in the lower part of Pharynx (throat) or in esophagus.
The causes can be stricture meaning narrowing which can be benign or malignant mean cancerous.
This can be well diagnosed by the following ways:
Consult your Doctor for clinical examination, general examination, to assess the bad effect of your complaints on your body like weigh loss, anemia, hypo-protinemia and so on. And also to give you a referral slip for Gastroenterologist so that you can get upper GI Endoscopy and other investigations like Barium swallow, endoscopic biopsy, Endoscopic Ultrasound, CT scan of chest.
Relevant tests of blood, urine and stool.
All these will give the proper diagnosis as early as possible so that an appropriate management as per the cause found will be done for possible cure.
Till then avoid solid.
Take plenty of liquids orally.

Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. T. Chandrakant, ENT and General Surgeon
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What Causes Feeling Of Something Is Stuck In Throat?

Hi, Noted your short and specific history well and understood the concerns. The commonest causes I can think about are as follows: Problem may be in the lower part of Pharynx (throat) or in esophagus. The causes can be stricture meaning narrowing which can be benign or malignant mean cancerous. This can be well diagnosed by the following ways: Consult your Doctor for clinical examination, general examination, to assess the bad effect of your complaints on your body like weigh loss, anemia, hypo-protinemia and so on. And also to give you a referral slip for Gastroenterologist so that you can get upper GI Endoscopy and other investigations like Barium swallow, endoscopic biopsy, Endoscopic Ultrasound, CT scan of chest. Relevant tests of blood, urine and stool. All these will give the proper diagnosis as early as possible so that an appropriate management as per the cause found will be done for possible cure. Till then avoid solid. Take plenty of liquids orally. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. T. Chandrakant, ENT and General Surgeon